Text 3 "our planet is in danger!"
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Interconnected, сhopped, burn, enough, garbage, breathe, a mess, atmosphere, exhaust, far away from.
Save our planet before it's too late! Humans have been living on this planet for two million years, and in the last two hundred years humans have made …of the planet:… trees, killed animals, polluted air, land, water, etc. Because of that we now have a lot of problems. I'll name just a few of them: 1) the greenhouse effect; 2) killing forests and animals; 3) water, air and land pollution; 4) rubbish problems;
5) nuclear power, etc.
It's easy for us to see what we are doing to the air we breathe, water we drink, we ….throw out! What about the habitat we don't see? E. g., rainforests, deserts, grasslands, oceans. etc.? We don't see them, they are …..us. What does it have to do with us? It is difficult to understand, but everything on the planet is …..and when something goes wrong in some part of the world, everybody loses.
The earth has been getting hotter because we are producing too many greenhouse gases. These gases hold heat. Trees and plants help to take gases, such as carbon dioxide from the…..but we have now destroyed too many trees. There aren't …. trees and plants to do this job. We make carbon dioxide when we …. wood or drive cars. CFCs (other dangerous gases) are in refrigerators and spray cans. They are known for the damage they are doing to the ozone layer. .
Polluting gases fall as acid rains. Large forests and a lot of lakes have been ruined already. Smoking chimneys and car …..pipes are pumping tons of rubbish into the air all the time, and we ….it in. The air in big cities is very much polluted. People feel it without any test. Doctors say that only 2—3 per cent of healthy babies are born in big cities.
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Acid, melting, protects, the warmest, a layer, since.
There is.... of gas called ozone. It covers the earth. It ....us from the dangerous rays of the sun. But if ozone comes close to earth, in ....rains, for example, it is also very dangerous itself and causes diseases. There are now holes in the ozone layer because there are too many "greenhouse" gases. Scientists say they are over the South Pole and over New York.
Because the Earth is getting hotter, the ice is..... Because the ice has been melting, the level of the sea is slowly rising. Scientists say that in the year 2050 some parts of Great Britain will be under the sea.
Other examples:
In 1972 Finland and Russia had the hottest heatwave for over 100 years.
In 1976 Europe had the worst drought for 100 years.
In 1989 Britain had the longest and the hottest summer ....people started to keep information about the weather.
In 1990 Sweden had ....February for 300 years.
A giant iceberg, the size of Hong Kong, is slowly melting. It is the world's largest iceberg., It broke away from Antarctic. It was 152 km long and 35 km wide. Now it is 10 km shorter because it is melting.
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Rhinoceroses, alarming, disappearing, periwinkle, species, tusks extinction.
Since the last Dodo bird died in about 1681, thousands of other ....of animals and plants have become extinct or endangered.
The Blue Whale, the Panda, the California Big Tree are on the verge of ....now. Gone forever are dinosaurs, passenger pigeons, California grizzly bears. Elephants, jungle-cats and Asian... are being killed off for - their ivory ...., furs, or horns. Many animals have gone forever, as their habitats have been destroyed at an ... rate: 340 miles a day! These are the rainforests which are in Central and South America, Africa, Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, India and Madagaskar.
While rain forests are ...., so are animals and plants which live there. That means we are losing medicines which people can get from these plants and animals. For example, thanks to a little rosy .... found in Madagaskar, nearly all children recover from the blood disease, leukamea.
Make up and tell your own topic " THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS " on the basis of the previous texts : " LET EARTH BE SAVED, " THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS ", "OUR PLANET IS IN DANGER!".